Overview

An unknown enemy has breached House Kundarak's defenses in the Vault of Night and taken complete control of it. Their own forces have had no success in taking it back, so they've asked for help from you and the Laughing Knives.

When you're ready, enter the Vault of Night in House Kundarak Enclave, and destroy whoever is responsible for this attack.

This raid section sees you getting the fruits of your labor in recruiting Marek Malcanus's party of adventurers to help regain the Vault.

To complete this section of the raid, you need to gain entry to the Plane of Night where House Kundarak have carefully hidden their most valued treasure. The Vault is in a state of anarchy, overrun with undead and agents of the Aurum. You have to power the Vault back up to recover the master key.

Flagging

Order is no longer important. Just be sure to pick up each individual quest before proceeding.

Once the 4-quest arc is completed and this quest The Vault of Night is available from Barrow d'Kundarak, this pre-raid along with the Plane of Night raid can be repeated without repeating the initial 4-quest arc.

Bug: The old flagging system is still in place along side the new one. Using the old system can break your quest. Avoid talking to Marek Malcanus to prevent the old flagging system from interfering with the current one - he is no longer necessary and really should have had his quest flags deleted to prevent this bug. Additionally, sharing the quest will break it: do not share it or accept any share attempts, pick it up manually.

Note: Talking to Marek won't always break your quest flags, it depends what step of the chain you're on, but to be safe, do not talk to him at all. If you want to read his flavor text, do so after you're correctly flagged. It's safe to do so at that point.

To use the new flagging system, simply complete the 4 quests, and pick up their end rewards. Then talk to Barrow d'Kundarak to be permanently flagged.

Workaround for if your quest gets broken: Manually Abandon "The Vault of the Night" story arc. Then talk to Barrow. He should bestow it and you can then enter; if you cannot, you are not flagged and need to redo some or all of the quests.

East rune puzzle

Vault of Night puzzle

Spoiler Warning: Information below this point can be considered spoiler material!

Preparation

There are many nasty traps and locked doors in this quest, so a Rogue or Artificer is essential (except for exceptional parties). You will also need at least two persons with a strength of 25 for some levers and two persons with at least a wisdom of 20. Without these required stats, you will not be able to complete this raid.

Arcane casters should have Dimension Door and Knock as they will greatly speed things up. Casters (divine or arcane) should hand out acid and lightning resistance - preferably extended as this is a very long raid. Melee should have adamantine weapons for the end boss, as he has significant DR when running on epic, or even at-level on elite, as well as strong weapons for the foe you will inevitably face after this raid - the red dragon, Velah.

Strategy

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Pre-requisites: You can lead via voice and the party has the right stats.

Most importantly: When you begin, designate one person - preferably one who is very knowledgeable about the raid - to get the Voice and the Ring, and complete the main 4 objectives (Restore the power).

Other important objectives that can be done mostly simultaneously are the puzzle, coffer and crystal master key, so ideally also assigning players to each of these objectives for a fast completion (or groups of players if your running high difficulties).

List of items NPCs will hand out (One time only, for one player only) - the important one here is the Voice:

Veil: 100 Veil's Avengers - +2 Arrow: Dwarf BaneDwarf Bane: A bane weapon excels at attacking one type or subtype of creature. Against Dwarves, this weapon's effective enhancement bonus is +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus. It deals an extra 2 to 12 points of damage against the foe. (Destroyed on Exiting Adventure)

Haywire: Haywire's Voice - Drops on Leaving Adventure, Drops on Death

Other key items required for quest completion - be absolutely sure about who picks these up:

Arcane Signet Ring - Drops on Leaving Adventure, Drops on Death

Crystal Master Key

Once complete, you gain entry to the final part of the Vault of Night raid quest series from an exit at the end of this quest. Do not recall from this quest on completion for you will not be able to proceed to the following quest.

Boss Strategy

Don't underestimate Arach's Knight. He can very quickly take down an unprepared raid group, so be sure to buff appropriately (Sonic resistance, haste, etc) and take down his hounds first. For more in-depth detail on him, check his article.

Notes: Conquest requires you to kill the re-spawning Warforged in the puzzle area a few times to get over 240 monsters killed; generally one or two people are assigned this duty while the rest of the party continues.

Loot

Chests: 4 on regular difficulties, 5 on epic

One heavily trapped by several lightning traps beyond a door on the west side

Another on the west side near the shrine, but not accessible until power has been restored to accounting

One on the north end past the breaker lever, locked with an extremely high DC. (Over 60 on epic)

One hidden on a small platform by the lava in the eastern section - get this one after you get the crystal master key, then dimension door back as it's not easy to return.

Epic Difficulty spawns an epic chest right on top of the portal entrance to the plane of night (be careful not to click the portal by mistake). It contains a chance at epic seals.

NPC rewards: None until you complete the final follow-up raid, Plane of Night

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